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(Nd Mode1) J'I :EL GRAUWILER..

WQVBN BAG. j

No.264f526.

Patented-Sept. 1.9, 1882.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESSES i Nifrnn STATES JOHN E. GRAUWILER, OF' NEW YORK, Y.

WOVEN BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,526, dated September 19, 1882.

v Application filed January E21, 1882. (No model.)

- Y lowing is a specification.

This yinvention relates 4to. woven bags or pouches for holding tobacco and other articles; and it consists of a bag woven completeand provided at the open side or mouth with a tulre or hem woven in one piece with the body of the bag, said tube containing two shirringstrings which move freely inside of the tube.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of a web comprising` a series of bags woven together, each bag ocu-pying the width of the web` Fig. 2 is a top viewof'a similar web, in which two bags woven bottom to bottom occupy the width of the web; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improved bag, a part being cut away to show the inte- -woven`web which comprises a series `of bags This web A is woven on the loom in the with two fabrics at that so. on.

rior of the bag.

Similar letters of spending parts. `L

Referring to the" drawings, A represents a reference indicate corre- A'. usual well-known manner, asshown in Fig. 1, part forming the body of the bag, and a double thickness at the intermediate portions or webs which connect the bags.. For this purpose the jacquard or other* devices are so arranged that all the warpthreads of the entire fabric are woven into strips a a cia3 a4 a5, &c., of double thickness. After each strip is formed the warp-threads are then divided respectively at a a3 a5, Ste., into two equal and distinct parts, which are` then woven, independently of each other, into twoV distinct and separate fabrics, one lying above the other. This is continued until the two fabrics are wide enough to form the bag, when the whole body of the warp is again woven into a strip'of fabric of double thickness previous to the formation of the next. bag, and While the two fabrics forming the sides of the bags are in the process of formaftion the left edges of the fabrics are so controlled by 'the jacquard of the loom as to interweave them intoone edge, thus formingthe l bottoms of the bagsf' The edges at the oppo.

gins and leave them immediately before the ceding the next bag commences. The shirring-strin gs are thus completely inclosed by the tubes or hems formed at the mouth of the -bags, but are not in any manner interwoven or interlaced with the fabric of the bag. The tubes or hems are woven around the strings, so that they remain in the center ofthe same, in the same manner as if they were drawn tthrough the hems. The shining-strings therefore move as easily in the woven tubes of the bag as in the hems of common bags, without tearing or otherwise i-njuring the fabric of the bag. The woven tubes ,or hems b b can be made of any desired width, and any number of strings can be made to move in them. After the bags are thuswoven consecutively on the loom, each bag occupying the entire width of the fabric, they are separated by cutting across the middle of the strips of double thickness, then turned inside out, after which the shining-strings are tied -and the bag is ready for use. 'The fabric can also be woven so that two bags are made to occupy the width of the fabric,- in which case the mouths of the bags are formed along opposite edges, while the bottoms are formed adjoining each other by weaving a strip of double thickness throughout the middle ofthe fabric, as shown at e e. In this case the bags are separated by cutting between the bottoms and sides, in the same manner as before between the sides of the .bags.`

, 1 do not claimv a bag woven in the manner described without sewing, as this is well part of the warp, and which enter the tubes'as` soon as the weaving of the double fabric beweaving of the double portion of fabric pre- IOO known. Neither do I claim bags provided with shirringstrings which-form part of the warp and are wovenor interlaced in the fabric. Having thus described my invention, I claim 5 as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an article 0f manufacture, a bag having a circumferential seamless tube Woven 'intey gral therewith at its mouth and provided with shining-strings, the Woof and warp of said 1o tube being uniformly distributed along its length and throughout its circumference, snbstantially asdescribed.

'In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention Ichave signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN E. GRAUWI LEB.

Witnesses PAUL GoErEL, CARL KAR?. 

